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The Bathers

by Robert Reid

oil on canvas
40 1/2 x 40 1/2 in. (102.9 x 102.8 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Reid, Robert 
The Birches Of The Catskills

by Worthington Whittredge

ca. 1875
oil on canvas mounted on paperboard
13 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. (33.5 x 19.8 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Whittredge, Worthingtonnotes
Worthington Whittredge found it difficult to adjust to painting the New England landscape after almost ten years abroad. He described the forests as “a mass of decaying logs and tangled brush wood” that were completely different from the “well-ordered” European views he was used to. (The Autobiography of Worthington Whittredge, 1942,...
The Black Cloud

by Eugene Higgins

Oil on canvas
30 x 40 1/8 in. (76.3 x 102.0 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Higgins, Eugene 
The Blacksmith

by James Carroll Beckwith

1909
oil on canvas
52 1/4 x 32 1/8 in. (132.6 x 81.5 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Beckwith, James Carroll 
The Blockmaker

by Edgar Melville Ward

oil on canvas
25 3/8 x 21 1/4 in. (64.4 x 53.9 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Ward, Edgar Melvillenotes
This painting of a craftsman in his studio was one of many images of elderly, independent artisans at work that flourished on the American art market in the last decades of the nineteenth century. Blockmakers specialized in making pulley blocks for ships, and several oval-shaped wooden blocks appear on the worktable. As factory work grew in the...
The Boy with Arrow (Leo Volk)

by Douglas Volk

1903
oil on canvas
46 1/8 x 36 1/8 in. (117.1 x 91.6 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Volk, Douglas 
The Bride

by Gari Melchers

ca. 1907
oil on canvas
27 1/2 x 16 3/8 in. (70.0 x 41.7 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Melchers, Gari 
The Brook, Greenwich, Connecticut

by John Henry Twachtman

ca. 1890-1900
oil on canvas
25 1/8 x 34 7/8 in. (63.7 x 88.5 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Twachtman, John Henry 
The Canon of the Belle Fourche, Wyoming

by Thomas Moran

1892
pen and ink, pencil, and ink wash heightened with white on paper
7 x 9 5/8 in. (17.8 x 24.5 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Moran, Thomas 
The Capitol. Washington, D.C.

by Thomas Doughty

1832
lithograph on paper
image: 5 3/4 x 8 5/8 in. (14.7 x 21.9 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Doughty, Thomas 
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